He won the Pulitzer, the National Book Award and the Book Critics Award for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and was the first living poet to be included in the Library of America series. So, yeah, he didn't have to do much explaining. #booksky #poetry #writers #botd
Beck JonesHe influenced many; put off some. He didn't want his poetry to be incomprehensible, but he didn't want to explain it, either. John Ashbery, July 28, 1927-Sept. 3, 2017. Below, Anticipated Stranger, from A Worldly Country, 2007. #booksky #poetry #writers